Loudoun Branch, Manassas Gap Railroad

The Virginia General Assembly approved plans for the Loudoun Branch (parts of which survive here) of the Manassas Gap Railroad on 8 March 1853, and construction soon began. The route extended 27 miles from just southwest of Chantilly on the ...

Centennial Year, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Commemorating

the

Centennial Year

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Rankin Chapel,

site of the Founder's Window

erected in honor of the Sixteen Pillars of AKA,

January 14, 1978.

Dr. Barbara A. Mckinzie, Centennial International President.

Marker dedicated January 15, ...

Grapevine Bridge

Here stood Grapevine Bridge across which, on the night of June 27, 1862, part of McClellan's Army moved in changing base from the Pamunkey to the James after the Battle of Gaines' Mill. "Stonewall" Jackson pursued, June 29.

Marker is on ...

Pike County Veterans Memorial

In memory of

all veterans from

Pike County who served

All Gave Some

Some Gave All

Thanks to those who made this dream reality

To Honor Those Who Gave So Much

Iraq

Justin R. McCoy

Daniel T. Morris

James M. Puckett

Vietnam

Earl Duncan

Jimmy James

Everett D. (Butch) Keaton

Robert Lemaster

Charles E. Miller

Michael Noel

Clarence ...

Campobello's Resort Hotels

In 1881, a group of American businessmen (called themselves the Campobello Company) purchased most of Campobello Island. In an era of summer-long vacations and great summer resorts, the company hoped, by promoting Campobello's charms, to attract, well-to-do people with extensive ...

Masonic Temple

Meetings in Philipsburg of Flint Creek Lodge No. 11 date back to 1867. This structure, built in 1911, provided a permanent home for the community-oriented fraternal organization. Chambers for lodge meetings occupy the entire top floor. The ground floor originally ...

Saint John's Episcopal Mission

People living in small towns built churches to provide services within walking distance from their homes.

Saint John’s Episcopal Mission opened to parishioners in Rosedale in 1892. In the early days, a pastor from Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bakersfield rode ...

Pizer Building

One of a network of Jewish merchants who supplied miners in the Rocky Mountain West, nineteen-year-old Benjamin Pizer arrived in Helena from Poland with his wife Jessie Silverman and their newborn son David in 1869. With limited capital, he purchased ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and ...

Captain Henry V. Fuller

Captain Henry V. Fuller

Co. F. 64th New York Infantry

Killed July 2, 1863.

Marker can be reached from DeTrobriand Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

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